Joe Scarborough went on MSNBC in March 2024 and told America that Joe Biden was "far beyond cogent" – the best he'd ever been.
Four months later Biden dropped out of the race because everyone around him knew he couldn't finish a sentence.
Now CNN has a cardiologist warning about Trump nodding off at a Memorial Day ceremony, and Megyn Kelly just asked the question they cannot answer.
The Double Standard CNN Can't Explain
Dr. Jonathan Reiner went on CNN to warn America that Trump suffers from "severe daytime somnolence" – a condition he said could indicate chronic insomnia and increased risk of dementia.
This is the same network whose anchors spent four years dismissing anyone who noticed Biden struggling as a partisan hack.
Kelly called it out on X without flinching.
"I love how Trump occasionally nodding off has got to be some secret, scary medical issue," she wrote. "Maybe it's just that he doesn't sleep much at night and these events are … kinda long/dry/not that scintillating?"
https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/2059337154350989768?s=20
Trump has been public about sleeping four hours a night for decades.
He posts on Truth Social past 2 a.m. and is back online by 6 a.m.
The man is 79 years old, runs the most powerful government on earth, and keeps a schedule that would hospitalize most people half his age.
Nodding off at a long outdoor ceremony isn't a diagnosis. It's Tuesday.
The People Who Told You Biden Was Fine
Scarborough's "best Biden ever" rant aired in March 2024.
By that point Biden had already struggled to recall the timeframe of his own son Beau's death.
He'd already called a congresswoman by name at a White House event – a congresswoman who had been dead for months.
Special counsel Robert Hur had already concluded Biden was "a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory" whose recall was so impaired that a jury wouldn't convict him.
Scarborough went on national television anyway and told you Biden was sharp as a tack.
CNN spent the same period calling concerns about Biden's fitness a right-wing talking point.
When the Wall Street Journal published a 2024 investigation drawing on more than 45 sources documenting Biden's decline, CNN's media desk attacked the story.
When Jake Tapper later co-wrote a book confirming everything the Journal had reported, Scarborough went back on television and admitted he was "obviously wrong."
https://twitter.com/FullOfGraceUS/status/2059288654325989639?s=20
They weren't duped. They lied.
And now the same network is sending doctors on air to diagnose Trump for closing his eyes at a Memorial Day ceremony.
What This Is Really About
The media doesn't care about Trump's health.
Every nod, every stumble, every slurred word gets catalogued – not for journalism, but for opposition research dressed up as medical concern.
Dr. Reiner, the CNN cardiologist now sounding alarms about Trump, is the same Dr. Reiner who waited until after Biden's disastrous June 2024 debate collapse to write a CNN opinion piece asking why nobody was demanding the president take a cognitive test.
He had four years.
But he chose that week.
Trump just passed his annual physical at Walter Reed.
Megyn Kelly spent years getting called a partisan hack for asking questions the media refused to ask about Biden.
She was right then.
She's right now.
The standard isn't medical.
It never was.
Sources:
- Adam Downer, "Megyn Kelly defends Donald Trump nodding off," Yahoo Entertainment, May 26, 2026.
- Brooke Singman, "Special Counsel calls Biden 'sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,'" Fox News, February 8, 2024.
- "MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Admits to Jake Tapper He Was 'Obviously Wrong' About Biden," The Wrap, May 21, 2025.
- "CNN figures dismissed Biden decline concerns before revealing book," Fox News, May 24, 2025.
- "Biden's mental fitness could have been better covered leading up to the debate, some White House reporters acknowledge," CNN, July 2, 2024.
- Jonathan Reiner, "It's time to find out whether Biden has cognitive impairment or not," CNN Opinion, July 8, 2024.
